Question

the distance of a star from the earth is 8.33 light minutes.What do you mean by this statement ? . Express the distance in meter.​

Answer 1

Hey there!

The statement 'The distance of a star from the earth is 8.33 light minutes' means that the light from the star takes 8.33 minutes to reach earth.

Given,

Speed of light = 3 * 10^8 m/s

Distance covered in 1 sec = 3 * 10^8

Time taken = 8.33 min = 8.33 * 60 s

Distance = speed * time = 3 * 10^8 * 8.33 * 60 = 1.5 * 10^11 m

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Answer 2

it means that light from the sun takes 8.33minutes to reach earth. The distance from Earth to the Sun is 149,600,000 km. You can check it with google, asking "distance earth sun". So light takes 8.33 minutes to reach earth.

149,600,000km=149,600,000,000m

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